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by Flavius Josephus
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2018
The Life of Flavius Josephus, or simply Vita, is an autobiographical text written by Josephus in approximately 94-99 CE, where the author for the most part re-visits the events of the Jewish-Roman War, apparently in response to allegations made against him by Justus of Tiberias. Titus Flavius Josephus...
by Shenanchie O'Toole
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
"Jewish Cuisine" contains a brief history of Jewish food, dietary laws, culinary styles, common dishes, food and cooking terms, holidays and traditions, Jewish recipes, common Hebrew and Yiddish words and phrases, and links for further study.
"Jewish Cuisine" is Book...
The Children's Jewish Holiday Kitchen
70 Fun Recipes for You and Your Kids, from the Author of Jewish Cooking in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
There could be no more festive way to introduce Jewish children to their Jewish heritage than through the food associated with the holidays. And no better person to do it than Joan Nathan, whose great enthusiasm and knowledge have gained her a national reputation as the maven of the Jewish kitchen.
Here...
Polish-Jewish Relations 1939-1945
Beyond the Limits of Solidarity
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
The following book was translated and published in English: Ewa Kurek, YOUR LIFE IS WORTH MINE - How Polish Nuns Saved Hundreds of Jewish Children in German-Occupied Poland, foreword by Prof. Jan Karski, New York 1998. She has also contributed articles in English that were published in Polin (Oxford:...
Crossing Borders, Claiming a Nation
A History of Argentine Jewish Women, 1880–1955
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
In Crossing Borders, Claiming a Nation, Sandra McGee Deutsch brings to light the powerful presence and influence of Jewish women in Argentina. The country has the largest Jewish community in Latin America and the third largest in the Western Hemisphere as a result of large-scale migration of Jewish...
Emissaries from the Holy Land
The Sephardic Diaspora and the Practice of Pan-Judaism in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
For Jews in every corner of the world, the Holy Land has always been central. But that conviction was put to the test in the eighteenth century when Jewish leaders in Palestine and their allies in Istanbul sent rabbinic emissaries on global fundraising missions. From the shores of the Mediterranean...
Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought
Writings on Identity, Politics, and Culture, 1893–1958
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
This volume opens the canon of modern Jewish thought to the all too often overlooked writings of Jews from the Arab East, from the close of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. Whether they identified as Sephardim, Mizrahim, anticolonialists, or Zionists, these thinkers engaged the...
Beautiful Death
Jewish Poetry and Martyrdom in Medieval France
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
When Crusader armies on their way to the Holy Land attacked Jewish communities in the Rhine Valley, many Jews chose suicide over death at the hands of Christian mobs. With their defiant deaths, the medieval Jewish martyr was born. With the literary commemoration of the victims, Jewish martyrology...
Germans into Jews
Remaking the Jewish Social Body in the Weimar Republic
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
Germans into Jews turns to an often overlooked and misunderstood period of German and Jewish history—the years between the world wars. It has been assumed that the Jewish community in Germany was in decline during the Weimar Republic. But, Sharon Gillerman demonstrates that Weimar Jews sought to...
Staging and Stagers in Modern Jewish Palestine
The Creation of Festive Lore in a New Culture, 1882-1948
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
This fascinating case study describes the work of the people responsible for creating festive lore and its system of ceremonies and festivities—an inseparable part of every culture. In the case of the new modern Hebrew culture of Eretz Israel (modern Jewish Palestine)—a society of immigrants that...
The Legacy of Liberal Judaism
Ernst Cassirer and Hannah Arendt's Hidden Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Comparing the liberal Jewish ethics of the German-Jewish philosophers Ernst Cassirer and Hannah Arendt, this book argues that both espoused a diasporic, worldly conception of Jewish identity that was anchored in a pluralist and politically engaged interpretation of Jewish history and an abiding interest...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
Now available in paperback for the first time, Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century is both a comprehensive reference resource and a springboard for further study.
This volume:
examines canonical Jewish writers, less well-known authors of Yiddish and Hebrew, and emerging Israeli writers
includes...
Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America
Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
In Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America: Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack, Judah M. Cohen demonstrates that Jews constructed a robust religious musical conversation in the United States during the mid- to late-19th century. While previous studies of American Jewish music history...
Jews in Berlin
A Comprehensive History of Jewish Life and Jewish Culture in the German Capital Up To 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
This richly-illustrated book depicts 750 years of Jewish history as well as Jewish life in Berlin today. The Prussian capital was, for many centuries, the center of Jewish life in Germany. Its Jewish citizens strongly influenced the city’s cultural and literary life and led the way in the sciences,...